Midwinter is celebrated throughout the world as the return of the sun. The days start to get longer and new hope is brought to the world. This album captures that spirit in beautiful versions of seasonal favorites.Beverly Yeskolski and Bob Clark set a wonderful holiday mood with the combination of hammered ducimer, keyboard, recorder, guitar and voice. These albums make perfect seasonal gifts, bringing musical light to the darkness of winter.
(SBM 9401 - Compact Disc and Cassette)
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Midwinter is celebrated throughout the world as the return of the sun. The days start to get longer and new hope is brought to the world. This album captures that spirit in beautiful versions of seasonal favorites.
1. THE FIRST NOEL
Keyboard & Harmony Hammered Dulcimer - Beve
Hammered Dulcimer & Autoharp - Bob
2. LO, HOW A ROSE
Keyboard, Hammered Dulcimer & Vocal-Beve
3. JOSEPH DEAREST / GOOD CHRISTIAN MEN
Guitar &Triangle-Bob
Hammered Dulcimer & Recorder-Beve
4. JOY TO THE WORLD
Hammered Dulcimer - Bob
Harmony Hammered Dulcimer - Beve
5. JESUS, JESUS, REST YOUR HEAD
Hammered Dulcimer & Guitar - Bob
Keyboard - Bev
6. MASTERS IN THE HALL
Vocals-the Doorway Singers
Keyboard-Jacqui Adams
7. O HOLY NIGHT
Hammered Dulcimer - Bob
Keyboard & Harmony Hammered Dulcimer - Beve
8. O COME ALL YE FAITHFUL
Hammered Dulcimer-Bob
9. MARCH OF THE KINGS / GOOD KING WENCESLAS / SING WE NOW OF CHRISTMAS
Hammered Dulcimer & Keyboard - Beve
Hammered Dulcimer, Guitar, Chimes & Triangle-Bob
10. IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER
Keyboard & Vocal - Beve; Guitar - Bob
11. O TANNENBAUM / DECK THE HALLS
Hammered Dulcimer-Bob
All selections aretraditional All arrangements byBeveYeskolski &Bob Clark Autoharp is a registered trademark of Oscar Schmidt Instruments, Inc.
Recorded at Mid-Ease Recording Studio, Norfolk, Virginia
Engineered by Randy Melton
Produced by Beve Yeskolski, Bob Clark and Randy Melton
Photography by Bob Clark
Cover Layout by Beve Yeskolski and Bob Clark
We would like to thank the following people for their contributions, tangible or otherwise, to this project: Bob Zentz, who, for the better part of three decades, has promoted traditional music in southeastern Virginia; Randy Melton for his usual great job; to our spouses, Claudia Clark and Stan Yeskolski, who have endured strange schedules and numerous rehearsals (but that's nothing new); to the artists who gave of their talents so willingly - the Doorway Singers - Jacqui Adams, Robert Fullwood, John Ickes, Cindy Ressler, Gayla Robinson, Barry Schnoor and Beve Yeskolski - and to those who took the time to listen, we are sincerely grateful.
O Tannenbaumis for Helen Clark.
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(SBM 9202 - Compact Disc and Cassette)
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1. ST. BASIL'S HYMM
Hammered Dulcimer - Bob
2. SILENT NIGHT
Hammered Dulcimers - Beve & Bob
3. I WONDER AS I WANDER
Hammered Dulcimer, Vocals - Beve
Guitar - Bob
4. CHRIST CHILD"S MELODY
Keyboard - Beve
Guitar & Hammered Dulcimer - Bob
5. O COME LITTLE CHILDREN / GOD REST YE MERRY GENTLEMEN
Keyboard, Recorder & Vocal - Beve
Hammered Dulcimer & Triangle - Bob
6. AWAY IN A MANGER / I SAW THREE SHIPS
Appalachian Dulcimer - Beve
Hammered Dulcimer - Bob
7. CAROL OF THE BELLS
Hammered Dulcimer - Bob
Harmony Hammered Dulcimer - Beve
8. COVENTRY CAROL
Vocals - Beve
9. ANGELS WE HAVE HEARD ON HIGH
Hammered Dulcimer - Bob
Harmony Hammered Dulcimer - Beve
10. WHAT CHILD IS THIS
Appalachian Dulcimer - Beve
Hammered Dulcimer - Bob
11. DING DONG MERRILY ON HIGH
Hammered Dulcimer - Beve
Harmony Hammered Dulcimer - Bob
12. BRING A TORCH JEANETTE ISABELLA
Keyboard, Recorder & Vocal - Beve
Hammered Dulcimer & Guitar - Bob
13. THE HOLLY AND THE IVY
Hammered Dulcimer - Beve
Harmony Hammered Dulcimer & Triangle- Bob
14. SOME CHILDREN SEE HIM / ST. BASIL'S HYMN
Vocal - Beve
Hammered Dulcimer - Bob
All selections traditional except "Some Children See Him," ©1957 by Hollis Music, Inc. Pub. Tro-Hollis Music, Inc.
All arrangements by Beve Yeskolski and Bob Clark
Recorded at Mid-Ease Recording Studio, Norfolk, Virginia
Engineered by Randy Melton
Digitally mastered by Al Sykes at Digital Design Studio, Norfolk, Virginia
Produced by Beve Yeskolski, Bob Clark and Randy Melton
Photography by Bob Clark
Cover Layout by Deb Joaquin and Bruce Nesset
Christmas ornaments by the Christmas Attic, Virginia Beach, Virginia
We owe thanks to many people, among them Bob Zentz, whose music store, Ramblin Conrad's Guitar Shop, has been a haven for numerous forms of traditional music and a gathering place for many friends for many years; Randy Melton for his guidance, advice, good ears and tremendous patience; and to our spouses, Claudia Clark and Stan Yeskolski, whose understanding, encouragement and moral support throughout this project were very much appreciated.